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Carl Sagan Quote - Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.

Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.

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The truth may be puzzling. It may take some work to grapple with. It may be counterintuitive. It may contradict deeply held prejudices. It may not be consonant with what we desperately want to be true. But our preferences do not determine what’s true.
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A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called “leaves”) imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles.
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The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.
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All civilizations become either spacefaring or extinct.
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For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
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One of the greatest gifts adults can give – to their offspring and to their society – is to read to children.
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Not explaining science seems to me perverse. When you’re in love, you want to tell the world.
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The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.
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Understanding is a kind of ecstasy.
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We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers.
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I think the health of our civilization, the depth of our awareness about the underpinnings of our culture and our concern for the future can all be tested by how well we support our libraries.
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Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.
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The price we pay for anticipation of the future is anxiety about it.
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Be grateful everyday for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides.
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